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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Anti-government"”.
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The Impact of President Reagan's Foreign Policy Efforts in Chile and Nicaragua
… to gain public support for the strengthening of governments and anti-government forces on the side of free democratic capitalism and the weakening of governments and anti-government forces on the side of Marxist-Leninism. The tenets of the Reagan Doctrine include: regimes that were not aligned …
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Writing against democracy: anarchist literature and the aporia of representation, 1880-1940
… “texts” is their conflicted relationship to government and representation. Late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American anarchists took as their object of critique U. S. democracy, a tenuously, yet aspiringly representative form of governance. As U. S. government moved unevenly toward …
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Compliance with IMF austerity: labor rights, protest, and repression
… Fund (IMF) program lending. It argues that when governments implement austerity reforms attached to IMF loans it increases human rights violations and violence in borrower governments. A new measure of IMF compliance is developed and used to explore the consequences of IMF lending in the 21st …
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Intellectuals as spokespersons for the nation in the post-Yugoslav context : a critical discourse study
… Croatia’s accession into the EU in 2013, and the anti-government protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014. Detailed analysis of the patterns of intellectual spokespersonship for the nation that are distinctive to each case leads to the following conclusions. The Kosovo issue seems to have led …
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'The False Song of Globalism': Anti-Globalist Politics and Ideology in the United States from 1945 to 2000
The emergence of right-wing populism in transatlantic democracies is one of the most significant political trends of the 21st century. When then-candidate Trump denounced globalist policies and elites in his 2016 Presidential campaign, he introduced the American public to a new term: ‘globalism’. …
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Political Memes as Tools of Dissent and Alternative Digital Activism in the Russian-language Twitter
… crisis in the Russian Twitter in 2014. Pro-government and anti-government activists have used this format of texts to promote their agenda and interpret the events, discuss political leaders, contest symbols of state propaganda and alternative narratives. The study is highly original as it …
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Surviving the Presidency: Presidential Failures in South America
… failures. Using survival analysis, I quantitatively analyze 65 all presidencies in South American countries between 1979 and 2012. In addition, I use a case-study approach for the qualitative, in-depth analysis of two failed presidencies: Fernando de la Rúa in Argentina (1999-2001) and …
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The Politics of Protest and State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes
… their lives to protest against the authoritarian governments under the threats of state repression? How does mobilization behaviors interact with state responses (e.g. state repression)? Why do opposition parties participate and mobilize protesters in authoritarian elections? Using new protest …
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Sovereigns of Sanctuaries: Host State Responses to Transnational Repression
… studied nation-states’ domestic repression of anti-government dissent, there is a growing awareness that such coercion extends across international borders. Nation-states pursue and repress their nationals abroad through a predatory process known as transnational repression (TR). Host states, …
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The role of translation in shaping media and political discourses in times of conflict : the Syrian "Spring" in context
… both voices of the conflicting rivals: pro- and anti-government. With a view to systematically identifying, describing and interpreting regular potential recurrences (reiterations) that may instantiate bias, it develops an empirical method of analysis that consists of a number of …
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The Oath Keepers: Patriotism, Dissent, and the Edge of Violence
<p>This dissertation investigates a prominent group in the patriot/militia movement called the Oath Keepers. It explores how the group uses references to core political ideas and important political events from American history. It argues that these rhetorical strategies serve three purposes: (1) …
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An Analysis of the Sovereign Citizen Movement: Demographics and Trial Behaviors
… citizens behave during trial, and how the government prosecutes sovereign citizen defendants. In conclusion, the SCM is significantly, and substantially, different and should be studied separately from the broader far-right when conducting future research.</p>